Discrimination of benign from malignant hepatic lesions based on their T2-relaxation times calculated from moderately T2-weighted turbo SE sequence

European Radiology

Volumn 12, Issue 9, 2002, Pages 2273-2279

  Cieszanowski, Andrzej ^a   Szeszkowski, Wojciech ^a   Golebiowski, Marek ^a   Bielecki, Dennis K ^a   Grodzicki, Mariusz ^a   Pruszynski, Bogdan ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

Author keywords

Liver hemangioma; Liver neoplasms; Magnetic resonance

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; LIVER CANCER; LIVER HEMANGIOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; NODULAR HYPERPLASIA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELAXATION TIME; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; CYST; HEMANGIOMA; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER DISEASE; LIVER TUMOR; METASTASIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY;

CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; CYSTS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; FOCAL NODULAR HYPERPLASIA; HEMANGIOMA; HUMANS; LIVER DISEASES; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0036725018     PISSN: 09387994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00330-002-1366-6     Document Type: Article

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